Unnatural Selection: Deeply Unqualified Australian & American Political Comedy

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff: COVID19 and the news media and stock market is freaking out. The effect of the coronavirus on the stock market. It's not crazy to have a go-bag. Personal space is not overrated in a pandemic. Flat earther dies in attempt to prove the earth isn't flat. LNP government is talking a lot less about surplus. The Unnat...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff: Trump isn't wearing makeup, the Twisties have just hit his bloodstream. The show is real weird when we look into each others eyes. Jeff Bezoz spends $10bil to 'fight the environment' - or the impacts of climate change. Is it weird to contribute money to fighting global warming if you're one of its chief proponen...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss a bunch of stuff. I'm a description, not a cop. The Unnatural Selection podcast is produced by Jorge Tsipos, Adam Direen and Tom Heath. Visit the Unnatural Selection website at www. UnnaturalShow.com for stuff and things. The views expressed are those of the hosts and their guests and do not reflect those of any other entities. U...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Tom secretly has a black heart… off air. Trump acquitted by the Republican controlled Senate. Mitt Romney, GOP member, voted his conscience to convict a Republican president, for the first time in history. Trump's reality tv show version of the state of the union. The Iowa Caucuses - a goddamn mess. Nancy Pelosi tears up Donald...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Brexit finally happens, we think. Everything has changed, but also, nothing has? Want a Brexit coin? It's a thing. John Bolton is a messy bitch - leaks tell-all book in the middle of the Senate impeachment trial. Alan Dershowitz: If Trump does it, it's not illegal. Coronavirus in China and the problem of dealing with a pandemic...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Australia Day weekend standard controversy + Triple J's hottest 100 date. We're too old for Triple J - Tom Tilley 'teaching the controversy' and changing the date. Considering a hard pivot every decade. Sport minister Bridget McKenzie welcomes the inquiry into questionable spending. Barnaby Joyce and his fun little existential v...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Smoke looping the planet from the Australian bushfires. Virginia democrats take control of both houses - civil war ensues. Trump piles on, encouraging discord over state plans to implement gun control due to Democratic control. Trump henchman comes out against the president and Rudy Giuliani.  Clearview AI and the race to end pr...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: We're not having world war three because of Iran - everyone be chill. Trump chooses the most extreme option from a menu from the joint chiefs in a pretty big miscalculation. More bushfire content. Scott Morrison interviewed by David Spears on the ABC about his government's response to the bushfires. ScoMo regrets going to Hawaii...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Scotty from marketing returns from his Hawaiian vacation. Australian's just kinda need someone to be mad at at and the PM is in charge. Government announcements of funding for fire services (and just about anything) is sort of untethered to reality. Not about political point scoring: it's not my fault, by Scott Morrison. ScoMo i...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Not Adam's 30th birthday - lots of Fireball to be had. Guys with guns at Australia's airports so you feel nice and safe. Jorge is always the recipient of 'random' bomb screenings at airports. Donald Trump has articles of impeachment filed against him by congress. Mitch McConnell is a literal supervillian. Impeachment is going no...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Arts funding redux - the Morrison government has done a great turn for arts funding by lumping it in with… infrastructure? The military industrial complex isn't a thing... Medevac bill gets repealed. Government finds government good. Secret deals going down between Jacquie Lambie and the Coalition government… or are they? The se...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Angus Taylor and the tiny fake-news snafu about Sydney Mayor Clover Moore. ScoMo forced to back Energy Minister against Labor's calls for resignation. Catch a Bronnie-copter instead. Is it corrupt to give the NSW Police Chief a buzz about an investigation? Pauline Hanson's One Nation senator Pauline Hanson decided to pull the pl...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Call me wolfpack - Adam's military larping. Corruption in Cranbourne says IBAC. Tiny Hands font created in celebration of Donald Trump's weird handwriting style. Why do the Dakotas get four senators? South Dakota is on meth. That's what I heard. What else is in South Dakota? Just Mount Rushmore and meth as it turns out. Benjamin...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The Plague is back. That's right, the Black Plague is back and it's 2019. The Black Death killed 30 million people - or 1 out of 3 people in Europe. I hope you're not a hypochondriac, because everything is covered in poo. Lawyers need to charge off 7.5 billable hours in a day - pooping is 'personal development'. Roger Stone gets...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman who hires hitman… How many hitmen does it take to change a lightbulb - the sad story of outsourcing in China. The beer economy in Darwin is a real thing. What is the point of the Labor party being in opposition if they don't seem to OPPOSE anything? 'Ok Boomer' - the greatest generation g...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Jorge and Tom talk again about the Blizzard/China issues and the larger question about corporate ethics. How difficult would it be to actually make an iPhone in America? Global supply chains are insanely confusing, so very. What responsibility do companies have to behave ethically? Facial recognition technology in Australia - do...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Jorge is back from the dead. Netflix's The Spy is good - but is the character a bit awkward, or is it Sacha Baron Cohen's acting? Turkey makes an incursion into Syria to create a buffer zone against terror. The US does what they do best in Syria = come in, fuck shit up and then leave. Blizzard's Chinese censorship scandal. The N...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Climate change protests - turns out they're all dole bludgers I guess? How many jobs can you apply for in between climate change arrests? Donald Trump ropes Hunter Biden (and Nickleback) into his impeachment inquiry. Vladimir Putin jokes about influencing the 2020 US elections… For the first time. We're collecting plastic out of...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: The grand final edition of Unnatural Selection - 2019. Some talking points so you can sound informed about the footy. Let's have a big vat of impeachment for Donald Trump - if the Dems don't screw it up, which they will. Not so much a mic drop from Nancy Pelosi, as much as a gentle mic placement onto a piece of felt. Collusion 2...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Justin Trudeau's Aladdin photo - can you retroactively judge someone with current standards? Indonesia reconsiders it's completely insane ban on pre-marital sex. Russian propaganda stoking fear about 5G technology. The Solomon Islands cuts ties with Taiwan, China's belt and road in action. UFO's are real, but that doesn't mean t...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss:   Jorge's encounter with Bruno's nuclear hot sauce. It was real bad. Fukushima's nuclear power plant might have to start dumping radioactive water into the ocean by 2022. Don't worry, it'll be fine. The problem with nuclear power - when things go wrong, they go REALLY wrong. A space elevator is the solution to just about everyon...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: 'Compassionate conservatives' and making people on welfare take drug tests. Spend money to make money - why sometimes the way to fiscal conservatism means actually spending some money up front. Trump fake hurricane map shows that we always focus on the dumbest part of any controversy. Boris Johnson and Jo Johnson are now having...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Classic radio throwback and BBC voice in media. Boris Johnson shuts down parliament for 5 weeks to lock in Brexit. The Crown writers have their work cut out for them. Aussie guy under investigation for use of a 'fishing drone'. Drones and big government kicking down your door. Won't somebody think of the children: IT 2 poster fr...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: President Bolsonaro of Brazil and the burning of the Amazon forest. Thoughts and prayers… for the fire? Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland for some reason. Pauline Hanson does the right thing for the wrong reason. Senator Hanson gets caught climbing up Uluru - she now thinks people shouldn't climb it, but only because it's dang...

On this week's episode of the Unnatural Selection Podcast we discuss: Tom's been ripped apart by 30-50 feral hogs, the cruel irony. The boys get stuck into the 2nd Amendment - America refuses to do anything about gun deaths, so we're just not going to talk about it. Jorge watched Aquaman for some reason. Mammoas abound. Michael McCormack and has a go at Pacific Island nations for trying to survive...